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• I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.

  Michael Jackson

  Believe, World, Care

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• So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not be achievable at all - or, at best, only intermittently and unconsciously - and may even turn into its opposite if directly pursued, but that it frequently turns up unexpectedly in the course of pursuing something else. There is no tease more infuriating...It is tempting to forget the whole thing and simply fall back on the couch with a remote control in one hand and a beer in the other.

  Michael Foley

  Fall, Beer, Hands

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• When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.

  Duffy

  Couple, Space, People

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• People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Insecure, People, Missing

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• A husband and wife should resolve never to wrangle with each other; never to bandy words or indulge in the least ill-humour. Never! I say; NEVER. Wrangling, even in jest, and putting on an air of ill-humour merely to tease, becomes earnest by practice.

  Timothy Shay Arthur

  Husband, Air, Practice

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• If a bunch of activists want to create the concept of "gay infertility" and then tax all the rest of us to compensate them for the fact that they can't have babies, then that's gonna happen. You haven't missed anything yet. I'm just teasing you as to what's coming. Gays now think it's not fair they can't have babies, so they're calling that "infertility," and it will require mandatory health insurance because of it. Yeah, I know they're not infertile but that doesn't matter; they can't have babies.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Baby, Gay, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Most of my memories of Texas are of mosquitoes, watermelons, crickets, and my brother teasing me

  Robin Wright

  Brother, Memories, Texas

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• Historians are gossips who tease the dead

  Voltaire

  History, Gossip, Historian

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• [T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

  Anthony Powell

  Misery, Innate, Greater

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.

  Jeff Smith

  Food, People, Cooking

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• I'm very active on Twitter and Instagram. I'm always posting pictures from set, and little clues and teasing people with fun things. It's awesome!

  Tyler Posey

  Fun, People, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Africa can stun you in an instant. It can throw floods and drought and disease at you, sometimes all at the same time. In the next moment, it will tease you with its magnificent beauty, so even if you don't forget, you can find a way to forgive. Ultimately, it keeps you coming back for more.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Forgiving, Disease, Way

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.95, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease!

  Alexander Pope

  Peace, Farewell, Sleep

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.118, Oxford University Press

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• Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.

  M. Ageyev

  Smell, Lust, Kitchen

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• Classic burlesque in the style of Gypsy which many modern burlesque troupes practice is, at its core, so playful and teasing and innocent. It's not hardcore stripping so much as letting your body tell a story; the women are playing characters and unfolding a complete narrative onstage, with beginning, middle, and end.

  Karen Abbott

  Character, Practice, Style

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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• I'm the worst at teasing. I don't really know how much I can and can't say.

  Tracy Spiridakos

  Worst, Know How, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.

  Parvesh Cheena

  Our Family, Closest

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• In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Two, Giving, Add

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• We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Emotion, Wonderful

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Years, Hygiene, Mind

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1997). “The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories”, p.33, UPNE

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• It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"

  David Hare

  Play, Moments, Thrillers

  "New Again: David Hare". Interview with Kathleen Tynan, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• The [travel] writer, looking back at the journey from a distance of a year or two (or three), is a different character from the hapless character who undertook the trip: wise after the event, with the leisure to tease out meanings from the experience that the distracted traveler never had, and often impatient with his alter ego's blinkered and unsatisfactory version of things.

  Jonathan Raban

  Wise, Distance, Character

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• We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

  Alain de Botton

  Numbness, Identity, World

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• There live a great man named Joe
  who was belittled by a loudmouth foe.
  While his rival would taunt and tease
  Joe silently bore the stings.
  And then fought like gladiator in the ring.

  Muhammad Ali

  Men, Rivals, Bores

  "The Soul of a Butterfly". Book by Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, 2004.

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• I would like to please the reader, and I think that surprise has to be an element of this, and that may necessitate a certain amount of teasing. To shock the reader is something else again. That has to be handled with great care if you're not going to alienate and hurt him, and I'm firmly against that, just as I disapprove of people who dress with that in mind - dye their hair blue and stick safety pins through their noses and so on.

  John Ashbery

  Hurt, Thinking, Hair

  "John Ashbery, The Art of Poetry No. 33". Interview with Peter A. Stitt for The Paris Review, Issue 90, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1983.

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